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With a skilled worker shortage presenting a tremendous opportunity for rewarding careers in the construction and design industry, Penn College's inaugural "PA Build Your Future" event introduced those varied vocational possibilities to hundreds of high school students from throughout the state.

"In this town we call home, everybody hail to the pumpkin song," say the lyrics in a modern-day film favorite, and Penn College students surely welcomed Halloween with a pair of juxtaposed traditions: kid-friendly hours for trick-or-treating at The Village Apartments on Wednesday, balanced by the following night's shudder-inducing attraction of the ever-expanding "Arc Asylum" haunted welding labor

Fall Open House visitors had unfettered access to Penn College's vibrant campuses Sunday, as today's faculty/staff, alumni and students provided them with a tantalizing view of a very real and credible tomorrow.

A CH-47F Chinook helicopter made two landings on the Madigan Library lawn Friday, picking up Penn College's Army ROTC cadets – and other members of the Lock Haven University-based Bald Eagle Battalion – for a field training exercise in Tioga County.

Human services students at Pennsylvania College of Technology are inviting the campus community and the public to attend “PCT HOPE,” a unique opioid awareness event to be held Saturday, Nov. 10, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. in Penn’s Inn on the second floor of the Bush Campus Center.

Five Pennsylvania College of Technology information technology students enhanced their education and future career prospects by attending the recent COMMON Fall Conference & Expo in Pittsburgh. The students participated in sessions covering a variety of IT topics, networked with industry professionals and obtained COMMON certification.

Alexis I. Ashby, enrolled in Pennsylvania College of Technology’s School of Nursing & Health Sciences, has been selected as the October “Student of the Month.” A resident of Williamsport, Ashby earned an associate degree in surgical technology in August.

Pennsylvania College of Technology students are set to return to the famed Churchill Downs racetrack, where they will work alongside celebrity chefs to feed guests of horse racing’s prestigious Breeders’ Cup World Championships. Sixteen students in the college’s baking and pastry arts, culinary arts and hospitality management majors will leave campus Oct.

Built Environment Scholars tour LDG's Williamsport headquarters ... ... getting a real-world feel for their eventual careers. The School of Construction & Design Technologies' second-year cohort of Built Environment Scholars visited Larson Design Group on Tuesday. The 14 students – accompanied by Carol A. Lugg, dean, and Naim N.

Zimmerman leads the discussion of Barry's acclaimed book ... ... which he said lends "a human face to what occurred in Ireland in World War I." Chappo, assistant professor of history/history of technology, listens to a guest's observation.